Heat warnings out for northwest Saskatchewan

The August Long Weekend is here, and it begins with scorching hot temperatures across the province.

Environment Canada meteorologist Brad Vrolijk says the northwest region of the province will be under a heat warning for most of today. 

“The Meadow Lake, Lloydminster and Battlefords region, we do have heat warnings out for the hot weather in place today,” Vrolijk said.

“Temperatures in that area will be pretty close to 30 degrees today and maybe a little warmer than that. The heat warning is out there because they also were quite warm yesterday up in the upper-twenties, lower-thirties.” 

The rest of the province will still feel similar temperatures, according to Vrolijk.

“For the rest of southern Saskatchewan, today will actually be quite hot. We’re looking at temperatures in the 30-35 degree range later this afternoon,” Vrolijk said. 

However, Environment Canada hasn’t issued any heat warnings for the area. 

“We do not have heat warnings out for the rest simply because it’s only going to be today that’s really hot. A cold front is slipping down from the north and that will bring some showers and maybe thunderstorms to central Saskatchewan in the evening,” Vrolijk said.

“The best chance for thunderstorms will actually be in the Prince Albert area and eastwards towards the Manitoba border.” 

Even though temperatures are projected to drop as the long weekend continues, Vrolijk says the warm weather could return as early as next week. 

“It looks like very hot today, then back towards seasonal summer weather heading into the weekend and then it looks like we can see hot weather return next week,” Vrolijk said.

Until then, Vrolijk provides some key advice for handling today’s scorcher.

“Just make sure with temperatures like these, find some shade, stay cool, drink lots of water and enjoy the summer weather as best you can,” he added.